Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: clinical, laboratory, histopathologic evaluation and search for mutations in the HFE gene. Casuistic from a reference center
Abstract:Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) consists of steatosis and hepatic lobular inflammation in non-alcoholic individuals. It occurs in association to obesity, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus, female sex, drug therapy and jejunoileal bypass. Recently, iron overload, secondary to mutations in the HFE gene in hereditary hemochromatosis has also been evidenced in non-obese, non-diabetic male patients with NASH. This study involves patients with NASH from the outpatient clinic of Hospital das Clínicas of the Univ… Show more
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